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Sep 20, 2021

Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramaniam, other Winners Receive Sahitya Akademi Award

Politician-writer M. Veerappa Moily and poet Arundhathi Subramaniam were among the 20 authors who received the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2020.
While Moily received the prestigious award for his epic poetry 'Sri Bahubali Ahimsadigvijayam' in Kannada, Subramaniam won the award for her English poetry collection, 'When God is a Traveller'.
The other winners in poetry include Harish Meenakshi (Gujarati), Anamika (Hindi), RS Bhaskar (Konkani), Irungbam Deven (Manipuri), Rupchand Hansda (Santali), and Nikhileswar (Telugu).
Nanda Khare (Marathi), Maheshchandra Sharma Gautam (Sanskrit), Imaiyam (Tamil) and Sri Hussain-ul-Haque bagged the award for their novels.
Apurba Kumar Saikia (Assamese), (late) Dharanidhar Owari (Bodo), (late) Hiday Koul Bharti (Kashmiri), Kamalkant Jha (Maithili) and Gurdev Singh Rupana (Punjabi) have received the award for short stories.

Earthshot Prize: Two Indian Projects to Get the Prize

A 14-year-old Tamil Nadu schoolgirl's solar-powered ironing cart project and a Delhi entrepreneur's agricultural waste recycling concept were named among 15 finalists from hundreds of nominations across the world for the first-ever Earthshot Prize, launched by Britain's Prince William last year (2020).
Vinisha Umashankar made the cut within the "Clean Our Air" category with her concept of a solar-powered clean alternative to the charcoal-powered street irons that press clothes for millions of Indians each day. Takachar, co-founded by Vidyut Mohan, has also been nominated in the same category for its cheap, small-scale, portable technology that converts crop residues into sellable bio-products.

Sep 19, 2021

Delhi Boy Bags US National Science Bee Competition Award

Eight-year-old Delhi boy Advay Misra, who was named one of the 'brightest students in the world' by the John Hopkins University earlier this year, has now bagged the second position in the US National Science Bee 2021 competition.
The National Science Bee is a buzzer-based science competition for individual students, with questions ranging from biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, astronomy, mathematics, and other scientific fields. It includes a written qualifying exam and buzzer-based regional and national championships.

Sep 16, 2021

UNESCO Literacy Prize Awarded to NIOS

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) of India won the prestigious UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2021 for 'enabling education of persons with disabilities through technology-enabled inclusive learning materials, with a specific focus on Indian Sign language-based content'.
On behalf of NIOS, professor Saroj Sharma, Chairperson, NIOS received the international Literacy prize and thanked UNESCO for recognising the efforts and innovations of NIOS in the field of education and literacy.

Sep 15, 2021

Booker Prize Shortlist Unveiled

The 2021 Booker Prize shortlist, unveiled at a virtual event in London, includes six finalists for the prestigious award for works of fiction, with an equal male-female author split.
Indian-origin British novelist Sunjeev Sahota, who had made the longlist with his acclaimed immigrant tale 'China Room', missed out in the final running.
Sri Lankan Tamil author Anuk Arudpragasam made the cut with 'A Passage North'; South African author Damon Galgut for 'The Promise'; Americans Patricia Lockdwood for 'No One is Talking About this', Richard Powers for 'Bewilderment', and Maggie Shipstead for 'Great Circle'; and British-Somali author Nadifa Mohamed 'The Fortune Men'.
The shortlist was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between October 2020 and September 2021.

Sep 14, 2021

UN's World Tourism Organization Award

Three Indian villages have been nominated in the Best Tourism Village category for the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Award. Madhya Pradesh's Ladhpura Khas village that is situated near the town of Orchha, is one such village. The other two villages are Meghalaya's Kongthong village, and Telangana's Pochampally village.
Indian village tourism has taken off ever since the nation's Rural Tourism Project began across states. The idea behind such a project is to give shape to the concept of village tourism, which is not prevalent in the country.

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